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some definitions to get you started: A style of art which seeks its inspiration from commercial art and items of mass culture (such as comic strips, popular foods and brand name packaging).
An art style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans, washing powder, comic strips and soda pop bottles, the movement turned the commonplace into icons.
Pop Art was directly influenced by Dadaism in that it pokes fun at the traditional art world by using images from the streets and supermarkets, and suggesting that they are art forms in themselves. Pop Art encompasses definitions of the popular, the expendable, the mass produced, the young, witty and sexy, and the glamorous.
Andy Warhol was extremely prolific with his self portraits, different mediums mostly screen printing and photography, and experimenting with dressing up as iconic figures, in drag and as differerent charactors.
Now don’t be put off by these pics, or think you have to copy them, although you certainly can try your hand at an Any Warhol interpretation. But instead look at some of the key words and interpret them in your own pop art style
mass culture
packaging
post-war society
everyday objects
commonplace
icons
[...] I am going to use this Memorial Day to finish off May’s challenge of introductions before I attempt the pop art challenge for June. In my last Self Portrait Challenge, I introduced you to my 2003 tattoo. Now, let’s go a little further back in time to 2001… As I mentioned last time, the ideas for both my tattoos percolated for quite some time before they ever became a reality. I spent hours pouring over kanji dictionaries looking for the perfect words or phrases to tattoo on my body. Finally, I chose a symbol which according to the dictionary, meant “to seek.” At that point in my life, I had just recently returned to Seattle after working in Uganda for a year after college. I wanted to remind myself that I should continually be seeking out life and its meaning.* So, I took the symbol down to Pike Place Market and had a Chinese artist paint it for me for five bucks. He came up with two renderings of the symbols — one of which he told me was traditional calligraphy (the top symbol) and one of which was more of an artisan calligraphy (the bottom symbol)… After deciding on the top symbol, I took the design to Slave to the Needle in Ballard and gritted my teeth while the artist drew it on my lower back — which I chose for its ability to remain hidden while I tested the waters for this whole tattooing thing. Now it just peaks out over the top of my jeans once in awhile. [...]
Awesome challenege for June…this one is going to be fun! I was wondering for this week….are we doing Week 5 of “Introduce Yourself” or starting the June Challenge? THanks :)